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Items of interest more frequently posted.

  • This is quite an interesting essay on art & drop collective MSCHF and Meme coins. “The success of a meme coin hinges on collective action spurred by resonance.” Read it here on dirt.fyi

  • This is quite fun, interesting and thought provoking. From the Ethics & Emerging Sciences Group at Cal Poly, the recent publication of a report on: “Outer Space Cyberattacks: Generating Novel Scenarios to Avoid Surprise.” It’s hard not to consider running a Design Fiction project to imagine these scenarios.

  • Did you happen to see this exquisite post from the UK Estate Agents, The Modern House? A home for books, quite stunning. Naturally. There is no YouTube video accompanying the post unfortunately, but there is a short Instagram thingy here.

  • Fred again’s creativity is such a joy to witness. A year ago he did a Tiny Desk Concert for NPR which is an excellent place to see his hybrid DJ’ing talents. I’d also like to point out that Hat&Beard’s brilliant book, The Steve Keene Art Book is (the only book) lying on one of the white desks.

  • As you may have read in one of my longer posts, I’m addicted to maker portfolios on YouTube. This, from Liong Ma, is no less insane than the others I’ve shared—but in some way feels a little more mind boggling. He started at 12… As @hilmyrukmana2144 says in the comments: ‘ bruh does not need to go to college what’. Enjoy.

  • Sabine Hossenfelder is fun and informative to watch at times. This one was particularly fun. Her taking actor Terence Howard to task for not knowing basic mathematics, or any physics really, as he promotes his new Theory of Everything: 1×1=2. (I’m so tempted to read his book…) Also, Joe Rogan did interview Roger Penrose rather well some five years ago.

  • I’m thinking there could be a full analysis on the style and brand of British musician Fred again, because I’ve found his media absolutely compelling. Not to mention his incredibly infectious pure joy in his making of his music. It stands apart from the rather brutish positioning of most successful DJs in a similar position. Fred again’s Boiler Room performance was a lot of fun, as was his, making of video in a train station, this live jam, and this ”drop”messing around’ video is also a complete joy to watch.

  • Soon after seeing Draplin’s studio I spotted on The Verge, a new series: Full Frame: Creators. This one on Matty Benedetto’s sprawling studio for Unnecessary Inventions A lot of fun to watch. What a great way to do what you love. I’d have liked to have seen a little more variety—like a week with the fellow to see his process. (sad news about his studio tho’)

  • I could probably just make a lengthy post weekly on all the interesting YouTube videos I’ve come across. This week I got to see inside Aaron Draplin’s awesome studio. The man behind Field Notes and a lot of brilliant graphic design. (as a side note, I’d like to think it was Draplin himself who mailed my first set of notebooks in 2007, and added Damien “Brass Knuckles” Newman to my name.)

  • Did you see that there’s a new page dedicated to T Shirts? ↑↑↑ On the top Navigation. ↑↑↑
    Or you can visit here: https://thedesignsquiggle.com/t-shirts
    A new drop coming soon. (Can’t believe I used ‘drop’.)

  • Greg Wolanski: “I’m a designer who can code, but I tell people I’m a full‑stack developer who can design, because the order of those words strongly affects how much money you can make.” I like this. And his personal site. Thank you for the mention.

  • Oh this is super fun. For me. A virtual Colossus. Complete with step-by-steps of decrypting a Lorenz message. I have a floorplan of the Newmanry, which I should post, which was responsible for the cryptanalysis of the Lorenz cypher and had ten Colossus machines! (see also the Testery)

  • Hah. I really like UX designer Ryan Young’s animated Squiggle. It’s his own, to be sure, but I appreciate the nod nonetheless. And really like that final curve.

  • Really enjoyed this talk by philosopher and cognitive scientist Andy Clark at the British Royal Institute: How the brain shapes reality (#active inference).

  • Beat Time!!! When I wrote this it was @790.51. Can we please retry and adopt Swatch’s internet time. You can read about it on Sam Gwilym’s site here. (via a conversation with MW.)

  • ‘If we do not encrypt our data with a quantum-secure algorithm right now, an attacker who is able to store current communication will be able to decrypt it in as soon as a decade.‘ Well, this is a whole new scenario I’d not really considered… Fascinating and worrying at the same time. Google’s Threat model for post-quantum cryptography.

  • ‘My Product Design Process’ by Thu Le. I really like the ‘connect, correct & connect the dots’ of this process.

  • High passion, low attachment […] from that comes lightness. Matt Webb writes an insightful and helpful assessment of his Kickstarter campaign for the Poem 1. Four ways I made my (successful) Kickstarter harder than necessary.

  • Designer & Artist Michael Vizzina shows a mesmerizing Time-lapse making-of video of him creating a character for the Birmingham, AL ten city block urban artwork project. It doesn’t hurt the song he chose is brilliant too.

  • From the NYT: Riken Yamamoto, whose understated buildings quietly emphasize community and connectivity, has been awarded this year’s Pritzker Prize, architecture’s highest honor.

  • I’m trying so hard to not purchase all the remaining limited edition artworks: Disorder, Chris Ashworth. The first book dedicated to the career of a truly hands-on graphic designer, charting his ‘Swiss Grit’ approach from the influential Ray Gunmagazine in the 1990s, through to his experimental type projects of the present day